URBAN LIVING FESTIVAL 2020 rescheduled for November 2020
UK: International Hospitality Media [IHM] – the premier specialist in online publishing and events for growth sectors of the hospitality industry is rescheduling the inaugural URBAN LIVING FESTIVAL 2020 [ULF]: stay-live-work, from this July until November 25 – 26 2020, to be held at Tobacco Dock, London. IHM CEO Piers Brown said: “We have been continually monitoring developments and […]
Airbnb faces copyright infringement lawsuit from IBM
US: Airbnb is facing down a copyright infringement lawsuit from multinational technology company IBM [The International Business Machines Corporation]. IBM filed the suit in Delaware this past week, seeking to bar Airbnb from using technology it had patented, as well as to triple damages for past infringement. The patents in question involve how web services can […]
Badi: What to look out for when renting in London
UK / London: AI room rental platform Badi has pulled together a list of tips to spot rogue flat listings and landlords when looking for a new home and crucial advice on how to avoid them. More than 5.2 million renters have lost money to rental scams by dodgy landlords. By 2025, it is predicted […]
Calls for greater inclusion in companies backed by industry leaders
UK: Expedia Group has teamed up with PhocusWire to launch its latest whitepaper on diversity and inclusion in the travel and tourism industry. Among the key findings, the whitepaper reveals that 54 per cent of women make up the global tourism workforce compared to 39 per cent in the broader economy. And yet, many still struggle to […]
Stasher co-founders named in Forbes’ “30 under 30” 2020 list
Worldwide: The co-founders of Stasher, a luggage storage startup for the sharing economy, Jacob Wedderburn-Day and Anthony Collias, have been named in the prestigious Forbes “30 under 30” list for Europe in 2020 in the consumer technology segment. Wedderburn-Day, 26, and Collias, 25, co-founded the startup in 2015 as “CityStasher” during their studies together at […]